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L. D. Huffstutler

Hymnal Number: 314 Composer of "[Oh, why do you wander unheedingly on]" in Into Our Hands Leonard Duffie Huffstutler Born: June 17, 1887, Liberty, Alabama. Died: January 7, 1977, Dallas, Texas. Buried: Laurel Land Memorial Park, Dallas, Texas. Leonard was the son of Hugh Montgomery Huffstutler and Amelia E. Dickson, and husband of Sallie Cowart. He grew up on a Texas farm and attended Texas A&M University, College Station. He studied music with John Herbert, Rufus Cornelius, Homer Rodeheaver, and Arthur Sebren. He sang in quartets and taught in singing schools for the Hartford and Stamps-Baxter Music Companies. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)

Palmer Wheeler

1905 - 1983 Person Name: P. E. W. Hymnal Number: 344 Author of "Tomorrow May Be Too Late" in Into Our Hands In his mid-twenties, Palmer Esker Wheeler joined the first Stamps Quartet, singing for Victor Records. In his mid-thirties, he joined the Vaughan Quartet and sang in concerts and on the radio. He was known as "the golden tenor voice of gospel music." His songs were published by Stamps-Baxter and Vaughan Music. In his mid-thirties, he left quartet singing to teach at Freed-Hardeman College (Henderson, Tennessee). He led singing for many Churches of Christ congregations. He published Youth Melodies and Action Songs in 1952. His most popular songs included I Want To Go To Heaven When I Die, Have I Done The Best I Can, Tomorrow May Be Too Late, and We Will Never Be Sorry. Source: Gospel Gems: A Collection of Songs by Palmer and Tommy Wheeler. - M. Lynn

N. W. Allphin

1875 - 1972 Hymnal Number: 15 Composer of "[To us a Child of hope is born]" in Into Our Hands Newton Washington Allphin wrote religious music, piano solos, and band marches. He was a member of the Church of Christ. He compiled and published twelve song books. - Monty Lynn from Our Garden of Song, edited by Gene C. Finley (West Monroe, LA: Howard, 1980).

Ben Cumnock

b. 1942 Person Name: B. C. Hymnal Number: 46 Arranger of "Let The Beauty Of Jesus Be Seen" in Into Our Hands

W. D. Jeffcoat

1929 - 2014 Hymnal Number: 6 Author of "Mighty God" in Into Our Hands William Dawson Jeffcoat born in Arkansas, died in Kentucky Dianne Shapiro, from Find a Grave website (accessed 6/20/2022)

V. E. Howard

1911 - 2000 Hymnal Number: 301 Author (stanzas 2-4) of "Come Unto Me" in Into Our Hands Born: September 29, 1911, Farmersville, Louisiana. Died: September 28, 2000, Texarkana, Texas. Buried: Rocky Branch, Louisiana. Howard attended Abilene Christian College, Harding College and Arkansas State University. He began preaching at age 19, and served in Powen, Greenville, and Texarkana, Texas; and in Hot Springs and Conway, Arkansas. He also conducted Gospel meetings throughout America, baptizing over 8,000 people. He owned a jewelry store, was president of Central Printers and Publishing Company and of Howard Foundations, Inc., and served on the Board of Freed-Hardeman College. He is perhaps best remembered as a radio broadcaster, beginning in Hot Springs, Arkansas, in 1934, with his signature tag line, "Are you listening?" He retired from radio in 1995. His works include: Church Gospel Songs and Hymns, with Broadus E. Smith (West Monroe, Louisiana: Central Printers and Publishers, 1978, 1983) © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.come/tch)

J. W. Dennis

1866 - 1947 Hymnal Number: 203 Composer of "[They tried my Lord and Master]" in Into Our Hands Born: October 8, 1866, Lebanon, Missouri. Buried: Erick, Oklahoma.

Thomas S. Cobb

1876 - 1942 Hymnal Number: 169 Composer of "['Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus]" in Into Our Hands Thomas S. Cobb (1876-1942), a native Texan, was educated in much the same circles as [Austin] Taylor, and received his music diploma from the Western Normal and College of Music in Dallas. He taught singing schools across Texas and the bordering states, and was particularly noted for the "Cobb Quartet" made up of his four daughters. He was recruited to Firm Foundation by Showalter in 1935.(Finley, 122ff.) Cobb edited only four hymnals for Firm Foundation before his death in 1942, but among these was the significant New Wonderful Songs (1933); at 296 hymns it was part of the trend toward more substantial publications. Prior to his work with Firm Foundation, Cobb edited hymnals for the Quartet Music Company of Fort Worth, Texas. A search of WorldCat.org shows that he was involved with at least 7 books for this publisher, going back as far as the 1890s when it was called the "Quartette Company." One of these earlier works From the Cross to the Crown (1921?) was subtitled, "Scriptural Songs," and was co-edited with Elder T. B. Clark and T. B. Mosley, one of the most well-known singing school teachers among the Churches of Christ in the southeastern U.S. Mosley was also known as a staunch doctrinal conservative. This gives some idea of the bona fides Cobb brought with him during the era of the "hymnal controversy" surrounding E. L. Jorgenson's Great Songs of the Church. Jorgenson was firmly in the premillennial camp, and was an editor of Word and Work, the primary voice of this viewpoint within the Churches of Christ. Opponents of premillennialism objected to several hymns in Great Songs that supported this doctrine, or were at least questionable. (Most of these were removed or altered in the better-known "No. 2" edition). Thomas S. Cobb passed from this life in 1942, shortly after the last of the pre-war Firm Foundation hymnals appeared. --drhamrick.blogspot.com/2012/01/hymnals-published-by-firm-foundation.html